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(No Model.)

J. SHELLENBERGER.

Bottle Wrapper.

No. 236,186. 4 Patented Jan. 4; 1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. 7

JOHN SHELLENBERGER, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

BOTTLE-WRAPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,186, dated January 4, 1881. Application filed November 23, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN SHELLENBERGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bottle-Wrappers, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to bottle-wrappers; and the object of my improvement is to provide the wrapper with strips at one-or both ends, bent or twisted at right angles to the body of the wrapper, which will be elastic and protect said ware from breakage when packed. This object I accomplish by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a top view of a bottle inclosed in my improved wrapper. Fig. 2 is a top view of a bottle inclosed in a modified form of my wrapper. Fig. 3 is an elevation of a bottle with a section of the wrapper. Fig. 4 is a plan View of a sheetof thin wood veneer or other suitable-material forming the wrapper, as shown in Fig. 1; and Fig. 5 is a plan view of a sheet of thin wood veneer or other suitable material, forming the modified form, as shown in the wrapper in Fig. 2.

Similar letters refer to like parts throughout the several views.

A represents a bottle; a, the body of the Wrapper.

The sheet of thin wood veneer or other suitable material is slit or cut into a number of narrow strips, 1) 11 at one or both ends, and the base or root of each strip b is partially cut on one side by a cross-cut at right angles to the slit, for the purpose of allowing the freed part b of the strips to be bent outward at an angle to the other portion, W, of said strips, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4. Thus the bent-out portions 11, in connection with the unbent portion I) of the strips, forms an angular elastic support at those parts. The same result is produced it the strips b of" the modified form shown in Figs. 2 and 5 are not partially cut by a cross-cut at their bases, but simply bent in the form of a twist at an angle to the body a of the wrapper, as shown.

These prepared wrappers are wrapped around bottles and other like articles in one or more sections, and the edges secured together by pasting strips of paper around the part a.

The upper strips, b, may be bent up to the bottle-neck or left straight, as shown in Fig. 3, as desired.

Wrappers thus preparedi. 6., with the bent strips 1) b form good, substantial, elastic bearings to keep the bottles apart when packed in cases and prevent breakage.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new articleof manufacture, the thin sheet wrapper at, having strips cut at one or both ends, and bent in the form of a twist at an angle to the body of the wrapper, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

, JOHN SHELLENBERGER.

Witnesses:

E. 0. F INK, GEo. H. BENNETT. 

